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Hundreds arrested during London’s Notting Hill Carnival
Posted On Sep 03 2016
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The annual Notting Hill Carnival has seen more than 150 people arrested and four people stabbed as celebrations continue into the second day.
The majority of those detained by the police during the carnival were held for weapon offences or drug possession, while paramedics treated more than 1,000 people, mostly for alcohol-related problems.
Almost one quarter of the arrests were for possession of a bladed weapon while 74 were for drug offences.
Met Police licensing officers also seized a large canister of compressed nitrous oxide on Queensway.
On Sunday, 156 participants of the Carnival were arrested on total.
Police said there were four incidents involving people being stabbed, two of which involved teenagers.
The carnival proper started in 1966 when local resident Rhaune Laslett organized a “jump up” for local children in Notting Hill, which at the time was considered a slum but is now one of the most expensive areas in London. He has been taken to a west London police station for questioning. The teenager’s injuries are non-life threatening.
He cited the cost of policing the event – reportedly £8 million – and the number of arrests made this year, 454.
On Sunday afternoon, a 14-year-old boy was detained over the stabbing of a 15-year-old on Wornington Road in Notting Hill.
The London Ambulance Service placed treatment beds along the streets to help at least 179 people, 27 of whom were hospitalized.
As revellers recover from Notting Hill Carnival, which took place this bank holiday weekend, rubbish from the street party is making its way to waste recovery sites across London to be recycled or used to generate green energy. The same day, two boys aged 15 and 16 were stabbed in Ladbroke Grove.
A performer has powder paint thrown at her face at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, England.
A memorial Mass will be held Monday for two 68-year-old nuns who were killed in their MS home, even as authorities continue to investigate the stabbing. “Next year we are coming back”.
